The reason that there is a lot of articles about strings is because there is a vocal minority that really hates the Python 3 string changes, and they where the

The reason that there is a lot of articles about strings is because there is a vocal minority that really hates the Python 3 string changes, and they where the most contentious changes in the language. Current Python 3 has changed a lot since the first versions of Python 3, and there is a whole host of improvements that makes it superior. None of them earth shaking but a host of them worth it. Python 3.6 was just released, and I would recommend having a look at its whats new document, to get a feel for what has changed since 2.7.